At a glance

Codestral 25.01 from Mistral is a budget model priced at US$0.30 per 1M input tokens and US$0.90 per 1M output tokens. For a typical solo-developer workload (8 hours/day, 22 days/month — 1 medium feature, 5 small bug fixes, 4 PR reviews, 2 stack-trace debugs, ~1500 lines of TypeScript, 1 large-doc read, with prompt caching at the default mix) Codestral 25.01 costs about US$7/month. The 256K-token context window covers most monorepo scans without truncation.

What does your monthly budget buy?

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Monthly budget

US$100 / month

≈ $23/wk · ≈ $4.55/day

on Codestral 25.01

Task mix

Input tokens

283.3M

Output tokens

16.7M

Total tokens

300.0M

Per month this budget delivers

  • Medium feature (10–15 files)925
  • PR review9,259
  • Lines of TypeScript2,450,980
  • Small bug fix9,920
  • Work email289,855
  • Unit test file8,169
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How does this model compare on price?

Input vs output per 1M tokens

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  • Codestral 25.01
    US$0.30
    US$0.90
  • Budget median (other budget models)
    US$0.30
    US$1.50
  • Cheapest in catalog (Gemini 2.0 Flash)
    US$0.10
    US$0.40
Input per 1MOutput per 1M

Cost per task

At the default coding-agent mix.

USD per single task

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  • Lines of TypeScript
    US$0.0000
  • Small bug fix
    US$0.0101
  • PR review
    US$0.0108
  • Read a large doc
    US$0.0164
  • Debug from stack trace
    US$0.0213
  • Refactor a module (8–12 files)
    US$0.0761
  • Medium feature (10–15 files)
    US$0.11
  • Onboard to a new repo
    US$0.19

Typical developer day

The 22-day month is based on the median working-day count across DE/US.

ActivityCountPer taskDailyMonthly
Medium feature (10–15 files)1US$0.11US$0.11US$2.38
Small bug fix5US$0.01US$0.05US$1.11
PR review4US$0.01US$0.04US$0.95
Debug from stack trace2US$0.02US$0.04US$0.94
Read a large doc1US$0.02US$0.02US$0.36
Micro-interaction (explain / lint fix)30US$0.00US$0.01US$0.32
Lines of TypeScript1,500US$0.00US$0.06US$1.35
TotalUS$0.34US$7.39

The 1500-lines-of-TS row models ~1000 lines read (cache-hit) + ~500 lines written. Headline figures are precise to ~5% — see the FAQ.

Monthly cost matrix

What each monthly budget buys on this model (typical solo-developer day, 22 working days).

Monthly budgetMedium featuresPR reviewsDebug sessionsLines of TS
Typical (≈ $7)68684347181,208
$50/month4624,6292,3521,225,490
$200/month1,85118,5189,4094,901,960
$500/month4,62946,29623,52312,254,901
$2000/month18,518185,18594,09549,019,607

Typical mix: coding-agent (85% input, 50% cache hits). Values show the maximum count of each task type at that budget.

What this model can do

  • Coding

    Trained or post-trained for code generation tasks.

  • Reasoning

    Not supported

  • Multimodal

    Not supported

  • Prompt cache

    Not supported

  • Batch API

    50% off when you accept up to 24-hour turnaround.

  • Tool use

    Native function-calling / tool-use API support.

  • Long context

    ≥ 200K-token context window.

  • Extended thinking

    Not supported

When does this model fit?

Best for

  • Verbose code generation where output cost normally dominates
  • Fill-in-the-middle (FIM) style completions
  • European data-residency requirements (Mistral EU-hosted)

Watch out for

  • No prompt caching — every call resends full context
  • Not multimodal

Mistral in the catalog

Total models

2

Median input/1M

US$1.15

Median output/1M

US$3.45

Input range

US$0.30–US$2.00

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Frequently asked questions about Codestral 25.01

What does a typical month on Codestral 25.01 cost?

Running the realistic solo-developer day (1 medium feature + 5 small bug fixes + 4 PR reviews + 2 debug sessions + ~1500 lines of TypeScript + 1 large-doc read, 22 working days) on Codestral 25.01 costs about US$7/month. Heavier workloads scale proportionally; lighter workloads cost less.

How big is Codestral 25.01's context window?

256K tokens total, with up to 8K of output. That fits whole repository snapshots, tests included in a single call.

Why is Codestral 25.01 output priced so much higher than input?

Providers charge US$0.90 per 1M output tokens against US$0.30 per 1M input — output requires real compute, input comes mostly from cache. Coding agents read many files (input-heavy) and emit compact diffs (low output), so total spend is usually input-driven.

Does Codestral 25.01 support prompt caching?

No. Every input token is billed at the full US$0.30/1M rate. If your workload reuses the same system prompt frequently, compare against a caching-capable model (Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5) where the effective input rate falls sharply.

Is Codestral 25.01's batch API worth using?

Yes, if you can tolerate up to 24-hour turnaround: batch input/output are 50% cheaper than real-time rates. Perfect for nightly code reviews, bulk refactors or pre-merge analysis — wrong for inner-loop editing where you need an answer in seconds.

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